John Elizabeth Stintzi
John Elizabeth Stintzi is a Canadian writer, most noted for winning the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in 2019.
Stintzi, who identifies as non-binary and uses gender-neutral pronouns, was raised in Bergland, Ontario, and educated at the University of Manitoba and Stony Brook University. While at Stony Brook, they wrote the novel Vanishing Monuments as their MFA thesis; after graduating, they moved to Jersey City, New Jersey, where they wrote the poetry collection Junebat.
Following their Bronwen Wallace award win, Stintzi secured publishers for both Junebat and Vanishing Monuments, which were both published in early 2020.
Stintzi currently teaches writing at the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri.
